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Cate O’Connell-Richards is a queer artist, jeweler, and broomsquire currently living in Madison, Wisconsin.

O’Connell-Richards has exhibited internationally and shown work at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), The Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), The Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI), Abel Contemporary (Stoughton, WI), Hesse Flatow (New York, NY), Lillstreet Arts Center (Chicago, IL), and the Gallery im Körnerpark (Berlin, DE). Their last solo exhibition was held at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA in the fall of 2022.

O’Connell-Richards has been awarded several travel grants for craft research, including funding for fieldwork in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and at the Foxfire Museum and Appalachian Heritage Center in Georgia, as well as a residency at Berea College Student Craft studios in Berea, KY. In 2024, they received a Craft Research Fund Project Grant from the Center for Craft to study the history of American broom making. Their writing has been published by Surface Design Journal (2024), and Mergoat Magazine (2023). They have been invited to teach workshops at the Kansas City Textile Arts Center, Ox-Bow School of Art, Lawrence Arts Center, and the Appalachian Center for Craft.

Currently, they are a Lecturer for the Art Department at UW-Madison.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Art/Craft Theory
Labor History
Queer Theory
Witchcraft
Marxist/Anarchist Thought
Thing Theory/OOO
Whiteness Studies
Material Studies
Ecocriticism